Discover The Secret Key to Lasting Success and Endless Fulfillment

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Success is not easy, but it’s not complicated either. Success is actually very simple. What people do is they bring complication to a simple structure.

Take those who are working hard to improve their financial and overall life circumstances, which happens to be many of the people I have the pleasure of teaching. I often hear people use words like “overwhelm,” “drained,” “ineffective,” or feeling guilty for not doing as much as they think they could or should to improve their lives. These clues are huge indicators that they’ve complicated the ideas of what success really means, which many of us do or once did.

That’s not to say that working long days–which you’ll most certainly have to do if you want lasting success–isn’t going to be part of the journey. Of course it will.

The difference between, for example, how I experienced long days in the three years before I became a millionaire, and what I often hear of the experiences of many of my students, is in our attitude about having to work 15-hour days.

For me, it didn’t feel like “work” at all. Yet others use words like “overwhelm,” “drained,” etc.

Why do so many high-achieving people feel so depleted?

It’s a simple one-word answer: passion.

When the driving force in your life is anything other than operating from your passion, it throws your whole life out of whack. It might work for a time, and you can make money this way, but in the long run if your brain and your heart are not working together, you’re screwed.

Everybody wants to have money, but what’s your passion? Do you have the courage, wherewithal, or understanding to live it?

My parents would talk to me about work and business when I was a teenager. They’d say things like, “You’ve got to make money to survive, so go to college, get a job,” so on and so forth.

I’d say, “I understand, but I want to find something I really love doing.” They’d say, “You’re crazy. You’re a dreamer. This isn’t Disney Land. You play on the weekends, if you’re lucky, but five days a week you work.”

That never sat right with me, but I did it their way for a long time, about 12 years. Do you know what happened in those 12 years? All I tried to do was make money, and I was broke. How do you like that?

Finally, I got so sick and tired of being broke, working at anything to try to pay the bills and make money, that I said, “What the hell … I’m bad at everything, so I might as well be broke doing something I like.”

The only thing I liked doing was running. I like fitness. I like staying in shape. It’s my passion. I didn’t think about a business. I had nothing to lose anyway, so I started looking for opportunities in fitness. Eventually I opened one of the first retail fitness stores in the world and became a millionaire in two and a half years after that decision.

How about you? What do you love doing? Work hard and do whatever it takes within an area you love. That’s how you meet the balance of success and fulfillment.

There’s a space within that provides the juice you need to work those long days and, believe it or not, love most of, if not every minute of it, every hour. That’s the power of passion. Just find a place of focus that you can enjoy and love, and start thinking from there.

What are some of the typical ways you think we trick ourselves into not working from our deepest passion? Have you found your passion and applied it to business success, no matter how big or small? How different is the experience of living your passion from imagining it? What are some of the signs when you’re on the wrong track, or the right one? Share your stories … we want to hear from you!

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